On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 14:04, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Using dial-up, it rather depends on whether the ISP requires some > funky private negotiation to log on. Most ISPs worth their salt use > a standard PPP protocol to do the work. You log in using a standard > username/password sequence, get your IP and away you go. > > Personally, I use Road Runner broadband on Time/Warner cable. I have > the hideously ugly "shark fin" cable modem feeding a D-Link 614 wireless > router/switch and Linux all the way. Linux works fine even without > the router. Did you get linux to work with Road Runners dial up service? I tried a couple of months ago with out success. Did not spend much time on it though. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about. -- Hilaire Belloc
